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Product Managers are responsible for the success of a product. As we’ve seen, UX is not misaligned with business goals, in fact it helps achieve those goals. If UX has become a necessity in terms of a driver of business, product managers need to adapt to it. Those who have a respect and understanding for the value of UX, and incorporate it into their product strategies, can better serve their users and customers, as well as the business.

When navigating obstacles, we often turn to well-established solutions and get stuck churning in that problem space. We become cyclical and self-referential. Involving others and developing empathy can bring fresh input, perspective, and ideas. In Practical Empathy for Powerful Decision Making, Indi Young teaches you the different types of empathy, how to develop it, and some tips […]

Traditional organizational silos are the nemesis of delivering great experiences. How do you scale multidisciplinary teams to enterprise size? Does a culture of design require a fundamental structural shift in how the organization operates?

Strengthen Your UX Skills with These 8 Daylong Workshops At the User Interface 20 Conference in Boston, November 2–4, you’ll learn to master expert-level UX tools and skills that you can immediately put to work. Our 8 superstar workshop leaders have experimented with new ways of thinking and collaborating—and they’re going to teach you what […]

Organizational change must be top down and bottom up. How do UX and design leaders influence the way executives make product and technology decisions? What defines true support as opposed to just lip service to a great experience?

Does moving to a design-infused culture mean that outside agency support is no longer valuable? What need does an outside viewpoint fill for design-led organizations? Or are agencies shifting to being an acqui-hire talent pool?

Global organizations can no longer project their corporate views of a customer experience upon a multitude of cultures. How do you embed the nuances and subtleties of each culture into a familiar experience regardless of where you are in the world?

What does it take to create a culture of design? How does putting user experience first change the way organizations work?

Those are the questions being addressed at the UX Advantage conference. Jared Spool and Karen McGrane will be your hosts as they delve into a series of topics with top design executives. In this podcast, Jared tackles two of those topics, Inventing the Yes Lawyer and Restructuring Incentives and Rewards.

Register for the User Interface 20 Conference by May 22 and you’ll participate in an hour long UX roundtable call with me. Don’t miss this chance to ask me your most burning UX questions (or even your non-burning non UX questions). Come to Boston November 2-4, 2015 for intensive workshops and talks focusing on what […]

We’re changing the dates of UX Advantage to August 18 & 19. We love Baltimore. We’re excited to do an event there. In light of what’s happening in Baltimore, we don’t think it’s right promoting this event at this time. We feel the best thing we can do is to postpone for a couple of […]